Facing your Giants!
In
the movie, “Facing the Giants,” David Childers, a rookie punter weighing only
145 pounds, faced an impossible challenge. With 2 seconds left in the state
championship game against the Richland Giants, his coach Grant Taylor asked him
to kick a game-wining field goal from the 51-yard line, although his best had
only been 39 yards. The season had started off badly until coach Taylor
decided
to give the season all to God. All he asked of his team was to lay it
all on
the field for God.
The Shiloh Eagle’s 32 players shouldn’t have even been in the play-offs
and certainly didn’t have a chance against the Giant’s team of 85 players, but
they were there! They were facing their giants of fear and failure. David,
drawing his courage from his father on the sidelines and a momentary shift in
the wind towards the goal, kicks a game-winning goal. Later, coach Taylor
declared, “With God, nothing is impossible!”
We need that message! In this year’s MT/MR, the Holy Spirit
weaved the recurrent theme of preparing for suffering. As missionaries we may
face the real possibility of suffering and/or persecution as we lay it all on
our field! In our own strength, we cannot do this but, “With God, nothing is
impossible!”
We’re not promised immunity to suffering but rather victory
through it. Suffering may become an integral part of our call as missionaries,
as Paul’s discovered,
“The Lord said, “Saul is my chosen instrument to
take my message to the Gentiles…and I will show him how much he must suffer for
my name’s sake.” Acts 9:15-16 (NLT)
Be of good courage, God is preparing us to face our Giants
and we will be alert!
“We continue to shout our praise even when we’re
hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate
patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of
virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next.” Romans 5:3-4 (MSG)
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